NOT ALLOWED TO LAND.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 464, 24 March 1909, Page 4

NOT ALLOWED TO LAND.

• CASE OF;A PARTIAL PARALYTIC. • let' 'association.) • ; ; Lyttelton, March 23. Strange'circumstances have conio'to light in connection_ with a .man.;named. Baldwin, a steerage "passenger by the.Fifeshiro. Ho went to England in 1906 Ifor the benefit of his health, and returned''by.'the Weshire, intending to go. to hisxhome at Invercargill, where he had lived for thirty years. Y Being partially i paralysed in the legs, the Customs Department in Auckland refused to allow him to land, under section 4 of the Immigration Restriction Act; ■■'. The man has lieeii livingon board 'all thd time';the vessel has been on tho coast,' and .has vainly tried to communicate'■v.ith his relatives. Ho presumes that they da..not want him. _ Mri Laurenson, M:P.,. wired to the Min'jsterlof Customs, suggesting that Clause 17 covered the. case, releasing returning New Zealanders from prohibition, and it was expected the man would' be released. IJunng last evening, however, Baldwin took the law into .his own hands, and came'ashore with-his belongings, presumably having had some assistance. .If.;; he had -stayed" ™ board, and no alteration had been made in the attitude of the officials;, he would have Wen, compelled to return ;,to England ■: in the vessel, which sails. to-day. > . ,/:,:, v'■■■ Much indignation is expressed' 'that an old resident, with -a .familyi -in ' the colonv' u ?? E° ne . to England in s.earchVof-healtii .should bo prevented •:;returriihi'r i , ? o'ii,raccount • • a i l i l 2 n r? y L ' e3 P^ ll paralysis is alleged to _ have been wohttaeled ''duringthe time of bis cmploymDntVihilnvercargill T